Engineering design: WAPDA awards contract for Dasu power project

Nippon Koei of Japan, Dolsar Engineering of Turkey to work on Dasu hydropower project.

LAHORE:

The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on Monday awarded contract to a joint venture, Dasu Hydropower Consultants, for preparation of a detailed engineering design and construction supervision of 4,320-megawatt Dasu hydropower project.

The joint venture comprises two foreign and three local consulting companies including Nippon Koei of Japan, Dolsar Engineering of Turkey, Development and Management Consultants, National Development Consultants and Pakistan Engineering Services from Pakistan, Wapda sources said.

Dasu hydropower project is a low-cost energy plant that will contribute 21.3 billion units of electricity to the national grid. Benefits of the project have been estimated at about Rs191.7 billion annually.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 4^th, 2011.